#AMRHoliday Craftiness

Festive, drool-inducing, and clever: mother runner cookies by Rebecca (a.k.a. The Cookie Architect)

Dimity and I have creativity in spades–professional magazine writers, we’ve written books that we hope is dog-eared on  your nightstand or  stashed in your gym back–yet we lack craftiness. Asking us to knit, crochet, embroider, felt, scrapbook, sew, mold, tool, tat, weave, bead, quilt, cast, or stencil something would be on par with asking us to handwrite our two books…in long hand…in Latin…blindfolded. My sole crafty endeavor is needlepointing, but the kind I do is basically high-end Paint-by-Numbers except I “color” with yarn, not acrylics.

An ornament celebrating our Ragnar Relay showdown, complete with a painted Tough Girl Tutu.

But dang if we don’t admire the heck out of crafts done by other mother runners. Like the ornament sent to  me by Nicole to commemorate the Ragnar Relay we ran together this fall. That ornament makes me smile every time my eyes land on it–and it makes me want to see more running-related holiday crafts.
So this month, we want to encourage you to share your running-related crafts with the mother runner community on Twitter and Instagram. Whether it’s a running-themed, homemade Advent calendar; silvery snowflakes made out of re-purposed race medals; or a pinecone wreath festooned with Salted Caramel GU packets, we want to you to share it on social media, called out with the hashtag #AMRHoliday.
Tomorrow on our Facebook page, we’re going to ask gals to share their Instagram handles so it’ll be easier to find each other on that app. But by using hashtag #AMRHoliday when you post a running-related holiday craft, other mother runners will be able to search Twitter or Instagram to marvel at your crafty creation.
Then, come Christmas Eve, we’ll share a collage (or two, or three) of images shared during the next few weeks. (And, for the record, our intern will be assembling the collage because, well, like I said, we’re not crafty.) Remember: Tag your tweets and Instagram images with #AMRHoliday, and have a happy!

I get a “kick” out of this felted running shoe ornament created by mother runner Denise.